Heh, at least you recognise it! My own wish would be that appropriate punishments should be determined by those who are not emotionally connected to the (alleged or otherwise) crime.
That presupposes that the machinery of justice is good at apposite levels of response. The trouble is, once something like this has landed in the lap of the powers that be, there's a feeling that something must be done about it and the opportunity to put things to bed with, "try to be a bit more bloody considerate" is lost. Instead, additional attention is given to something that's liable to cause an escalation of feeling the longer it's on the radar :-(
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Date: 2010-11-26 08:50 pm (UTC)That presupposes that the machinery of justice is good at apposite levels of response. The trouble is, once something like this has landed in the lap of the powers that be, there's a feeling that something must be done about it and the opportunity to put things to bed with, "try to be a bit more bloody considerate" is lost. Instead, additional attention is given to something that's liable to cause an escalation of feeling the longer it's on the radar :-(